DESCARTES, RENČ. Principia Philosphiae [with] Dissertatio de Methodo

FIRST EDITION of Descartes’s Principia Philosophiae, the first attempt at a completely mechanistic account of the universe and the direct antecedent to Newton’s Principia of 1687. Bound with the first Latin edition of Discourse on Method, including the first appearance of Descartes's famous Latin phrase "cogito ergo sum."
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